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  Today is the Day of the Dead, celebrated all over the world, a day meant to honor our ancestors and  welcome them back into the realm of the living.  It's a day-pass kind of thing, and it's assumed they will depart when the clock strikes midnight. I only mention this because while there are … Continue reading Remember

  I had dental surgery last week. It felt like a jackhammer was inside my mouth for forty-five minutes. Fortunately, the dentist shot me up with something that let me detach a bit from what was relentlessly happening in my mouth, and focus on the piped in music. It was a beautiful, heart-tugging arrangement for piano of John Denver's You fill … Continue reading WANT

  I am just back from spending six weeks with my daughter and her husband on their five acre organic farm in Northern Rivers, Australia. It's winter down under, and climate change has arrived. The days are already reaching 80 degrees, and the locals predict  summer temperatures of 110 degrees and hotter. The area is lush.... … Continue reading enough

I believe God is love, and that the impulse of kindness towards others is God reaching out to God. I believe that to risk loving means facing our own imperfections, our shadow, and that to ask forgiveness is holy. Love is tougher than she appears, and can slip through a crack with gifts. She can stand up to anger and miscommunications as long … Continue reading I believe

  Those of you who have been following my posts know that M, my yin yoga teacher, often inspires me to think about things in a new way. This week, she introduced the topic of ahimsa, the practice of non-violence. What I know about ahimsa is epitomized by Gandhi and his campaign of non-violence to win India's … Continue reading TRUE CONFESSIONS